The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry...
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Israel Seeks to Sell Weapons Used in Gaza Slaughter
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 8, 2024 | News
Israeli weapons markers are selling some weapons platforms that have been utilized during the onslaught in Gaza. Tel Aviv’s arms industry has found buyers among several Asian countries as Washington tries to make allies in the region, preparing for a future war with...
‘Journalists’ and the Fight to Save Freedom of Speech
by Jim Bovard | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
“What is a journalist?” is a contemporary equivalent of the ancient question, “What is truth?” The U.S. government's prosecution of Julian Assange hinges on the assertion that he is not a journalist and should be punished like a spy for a hostile country. The...
COI #570: Blinken Says Israel Becoming Like Hamas
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 8, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #570, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the war in Gaza. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash Qp6gznu4xm97cj7j9vqepqxcfuctq2exvvqu7aamz6 Patreon...
No, World War II Didn’t Cut Short the Depression
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Apr 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum”—and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II (1941-1945) lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This...
Five Chimneys of Gaza
by Kym Robinson | Apr 8, 2024 | Blog
Millions and thousands become empty numbers when scaled in the context of history. As a scale of human life taken, those numbers are tragic and can seem unreal. A life balanced against policy, allowed to suffer and die beneath a wider context that is expedient or...
Saturday Snippets 6 April 2024
by Bill Buppert | Apr 6, 2024 | Blog
Like all things, drone racing is the cutting edge of pressing the technology into the future, not government.It's these small and arcane subculture that drive innovation. Did I say not government? The Drone Racing League with tens of thousands of members. The market...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Apr 6, 2024 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
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Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On
The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...
Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa
That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...
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